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Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

Alison Bechdel

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Alison Bechdel
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: September 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Novelist
Writer
Lock Haven
Pennsylvania
Alison J. Bechdel
Autobiographical
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Basically, my work is play. It never actually feels that way - I'm always aiming to attain that state. But I get to do for a living what I did as a child for fun, and that's pretty cool.
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Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.
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I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.
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I try not to have anything too much going on between waking up and getting to work. I like to just be really fresh when I sit down. I always have my best ideas, like, within five minutes of starting. And then the rest of the day is just kind of putting in time.
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I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
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I’m glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
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Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl.
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Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.
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People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.
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For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
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Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.
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Nancy Drew was always changing her outfits. I despised girls' clothing, I couldn't wait to get home from school and get out of it. The last thing I wanted to read was minute descriptions of Nancy's frocks.
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I'll watch a movie only if it meets the following criteria: 1. It has to have at least two women in it. 2. Who talk to each other. 3. About something besides a man.
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It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.
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At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, Mythology and Archetypal Experience, confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then
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It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.
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I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it.
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It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
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I could not do what I do if I were not obsessive compulsive to a certain extent. I don't act clinically OCD. I'm not going to check things so many times I have to take drugs for it. But the kind of complicated and painstaking work I have to do to make my drawings, it just kind of harnesses that compulsive energy in a constructive way.
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I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity
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